Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Co
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Table of contents :
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
COUNTING OFF THE BEAT: AN INTRODUCTION
1. A CITY LIKE NO OTHER
2. PEOPLE, FACES
3. A SOCIETY TO ITSELF
4. PAPA JACK'S BOYS
5. THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN
6. ON THE CIRCUIT
7. "JASS"
8. THE FIRST SENSATIONAL MUSICAL NOVELTY OF 1917!
9. SOME RECORD!
10. SOUTHERN STOMPS
11. RHYTHM KINGS
12. MISTER JELLY
13. BOUNCING AROUND
14. OUT TO THE HALFWAY HOUSE
15. KINGS OF NEW ORLEANS
16. THE TIGER'S PAW
17. THE PRODIGAL
18. JAZZ NIGHTS
19. GLORIES, REMEMBERED
20. REVIVAL DAYS
21. STRUTTIN'
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX